A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

We were put on this earth to make things.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.